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Calcutta India-1946: Vintage 8mm Footage Of Storks And A Young Elephant At The Zoo

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  • Year1946
  • Decade1940s
  • LocationCalcutta, India
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1946 Calcutta India

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Vintage 8mm Footage Of Storks And A Young Elephant At... — Clip Details

CALCUTTA INDIA-1946: Vintage 8mm film captures a group of large storks, likely marabou storks, walking and foraging in a grassy enclosure at a zoo. The footage, shot through a dark frame, shows the birds in a naturalistic setting with trees and a wooden fence in the background. The scene transitions to a young elephant walking in a shaded enclosure. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of mid-20th century wildlife documentation.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
124755064

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

  • People visible: No
  • Logos / trademarks: No
  • Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel
Reel 1725 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label
reel 1
Reel-level year note
1946
Reel-level location note
india
Date
1946 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location
Calcutta, India Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route
Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • ostrich
  • elephant
  • pan
  • grass
  • walking
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  • storks at zoo
  • young elephant
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  • retro wildlife
  • stork enclosure
  • elephant enclosure
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  • historic zoo
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  • animal behavior
  • vintage wildlife
  • 1940s home movie

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1940s Calcutta zoo footage suited for documentary or museum edits needing period animal-enclosure material from amateur 8mm travel filming.
Period detail
The open animal pens, wooden fencing, soft color fade and 8mm handling may show a mid-1940s visitor record of a zoological garden in Calcutta.
Home-movie behavior
The clip carries a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing storks through dark film-frame edges before shifting attention to a young elephant in shade.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include large stork-like birds, grassy zoo ground, wire or pole enclosure structures, trees, a wooden fence, and a young elephant.
Film character
The scan shows 8mm grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, slight motion blur and dark gate edges that give the footage a clear physical-film texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, travel-memory insert, zoo transition, or brief atmospheric beat within a 1940s India sequence.
Historical context
The footage visually documents zoo animals and visitor-era enclosure design without showing people, signs, or identifiable public events in the sampled frames.
Research note
No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but animal-location identification, zoo property context, copyright status and any release needs should still be reviewed.
Research search match
Useful search matches include 1940s Calcutta zoo 8mm footage, India home movie zoo animals, storks at zoo, and young elephant archival film.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent same-reel Calcutta footage, then other 1946 India zoo or city material, then broader vintage zoo and wildlife home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Calcutta zoo footage appears to show large stork-like birds standing and foraging in a grassy enclosure with trees and fencing.
Stork-like birds stand in a grassy zoo enclosure.
In the Calcutta zoo scene, several stork-like birds appear across the grass while a larger bird stands near the right side of the frame.
Several stork-like birds are visible across the enclosure.
The 1946 Calcutta zoo footage shows multiple stork-like birds near vertical enclosure poles, with grass and trees in the background.
Stork-like birds gather near enclosure poles.
A young elephant appears in a shaded Calcutta zoo enclosure, walking near a low wooden fence with bright daylight beyond.
A young elephant moves through a shaded enclosure.

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